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scores were made. R. Wyatt Wistar came off winner with a score of 

 gross SG, net 79, and received as prize a pair of golf shoes, but as 

 they were big enough to fit John H. Schofleld, who is of a generous 

 anatomy, he will be permitted to exchange them tor a smaller number. 

 Hen C. Currie, the second winner, was awarded a handsome silver pen- 

 knife, and W. H. Smedley. third best score, was in luck with a package 

 of golf balls. After a sumptuous dinner the meeting was called to 

 order by President Frank Buck, at which resolutions expressing thanks 

 to W. H. Fritz and the St. David's Club for courtesy in extending 

 grounds to the club in July, and to Joseph W. Janney and the Philadel- 

 phia Country Club, for like compliment, were passed. 



It was announced at this meeting that the first annual meeting of the 

 club would be held in September, at which the election of oflicers for 

 the second year will take place. To Frank Huck. who has proved a 

 model golf club president, and to Eugene W. Fry, his efficient side part- 

 ner, and the indefatigable Ben Currie. secretary, all honor is due for the 

 successful manner in which the club has been conducted this first year, 

 and it goes without saying that their re-election will only be a matter of 

 form. The next game is scheduled to be played on the Huntingdon 

 \'alley Golf Club grounds, Noble, Pa. 



Forty-seventh G. A. K. Encampment 



The Chattanooga encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and 

 allied organizations will take place on Sept. 15-20. In connection with 

 Ihe arrangements for the entertainment of the vast number of visitors 

 who will attend the encampment the lumbermen of the city have been 

 conspicuous. Chattanooga will take care of every visitor. The homes of 

 all citizens will supplement the hotel and boarding bouse accommodations 

 and the veterans and their friends will all be well cared for at reason- 

 able rates. 



On May 27, 28 and 29, when Chattanooga entertained the Confederate 

 veterans, for more than four months previously the leading business and 

 professional men of the city, to the number of over 1,200, joined bands 

 in preparing for the mammoth task of entertaining them. For many 

 years there has been a growing sentiment among the Federal survivors 

 I hat they should, as an organization, make one more pilgrimage to the 

 ('hattanooga battlefields. With happy coincidence, the invitation of Chat- 

 tanooga was extended and accepted for the 1913 encampment so that it 

 marks the semi-centennial of Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and 

 bloody Chickamauga. In fact, the very dates selected cover the fiftieth 

 anniversary of the last named battle. 



It is possible that attendance at the reunion will be well over the 

 hundred thousand mark. Grand army encampments have drawn crowds 

 ranging from 200,000 to 600,000 visitors, even though held in cities that 

 could not vie with Chattanooga in scenic outlook, transportation facili- 

 ties, or historic associations. 



In view of this enormous influx of visitors, the executive committee 

 of the incorporated Encampment Association has made ample preparations. 

 I'nusually low railroad rates will be in effect for the encampment and 

 this, with the features offered by Chattanooga, will bring thousands to 

 the city, not directly connected with the event itself. 



Members of the Chattanooga lumber trade have been conspicuous in 

 assisting in raising the $50,000 subscribed for the entertainment of the 

 visitors. They have also been active in the work of arranging the im- 

 mense number of details contingent upon such a visitation. A trip to the 

 encampment will be a very appropriate vacation .iourney for anyone who 

 is desirous of seeing the guardians of the Union together and at the same 

 time of visiting a beautiful, interesting, and historic country. 



With the Trade 



E. S. Bacon Plans Interesting Trip 



R. .S. Bacon, the live wire head of the R. S. Bacon Veneer Compand- 

 or Chicago, has bought his ticket to embark on Sept. 2 on the Hamburg- 

 .\iaerican liner, Kaiserln Augusta Victoria, for a two months' trip, which 

 will take him to many of the interesting cities of Europe and on which 

 hf will spend three weeks in the heart of the Caucasus region producing 

 the famous Circassian walnut. 



Mr. Bacon will be accompanied l.y Jlr. Peurod of the Penrod Walnut & 

 V'-neer Company, Kansas City, Mo., and together these men will be met by 

 Henry Hoffman. Mr. Bacon's representative in the Caucasus. Mr. Hoff- 

 mann has spent a great many .years in that region and is as well posted 

 as any human being on the growth and history of Circassian walnut, he 

 being an expert on Circassian walnut logs. 



From Hamburg, where Mr. Bacon and Mr. Penrod will land, they will 

 go through Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and from there to Odessa. 

 Russia, via Berlin. From Odessa the party will go by way of the Black 

 Sea to Batoun and Poti in the Caucasus, where they will go right into the 

 Circassian walnut country and make a close study of its growth, peculiar- 

 ities and history. Coming back they will stop at Constantinople, and 

 from there go to Paris via Vienna. 



Mr. Bacon and Mr. Penrod are planning attending the Liverpool, ma- 

 hogany sales in October, from whence they will return to the United 

 States. 



Big Maine Timber Deal 



The most important sale of timberlands and mill property of recent 

 .vears in Maine was completed on Aug. 15 when the large holdings of the 

 heirs of the estate of the late William Engel of Bangor were sold to a 

 syndicate composed of James M. McXulty, O. S. Townsend, and Isaac N. 

 Peirce, all of Bangor, and all prominent in the lumber business. The 

 deal involves 115.000 acres of timberland and the consideration is $525,- 

 000. In addition to the land, there was transferred a sawmill at East 

 Hampden, a water power mill at Orono. and the principal interest in the 

 box mill at Old Town. All of these mills will be operated by the new 

 owners. 



Sash and Door Plant Has Disastrous Fire 



The Rock Island Sash and Door Works of Rock Island, III., suffered a 

 fire 10.SS of between .$25,000 and .$50,000 to its plant and stock on Aug. 15. 

 The efliciency of the sprinkler system in the warehouse saved the company 

 from a much heavier conflagration. The blaze started about one o'clock 

 and gained considerable headway before sufficient help arrived, but after 

 the Are force was \)rganized it was not long before the blaze was extin- 

 guished. .Most of the damage was to finished stock. 



An Immense Cypress 



The Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company of Dermott, Ark., is 

 shipping hardwood logs from its various lumber holdings. A man named 

 Tom Bell is superintending the hauling of logs from certain points in the 

 Mississippi bottoms. He tells of his discovery of a monstrous cypress tree 

 belonging to that company in the section where he is logging. This tree 

 according to his report, has 14,000 feet of lumber in the first twelve feet 

 of the butt cut and the whole tree has CS.OOO feet in it. According to 

 Bell's statement, the company has offered to pay $750 to any person who 

 will fell the tree and put it in tlie Mississippi river. 



The above tale, which H.vrdwood Record tells with Its fingers crossed, 

 is reported to have been verified at least in part. Manager R. W. Marks 

 of the Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company is reported to have made 

 the statement regarding the tree that he will offer anybody $750 merely 

 to cut it and clear sufficient right of way so that the log can be hauled. 

 According to Mr. Marks, the tree is thirteen feet in diameter and sixty- 

 five feet to the first limb. It has, according to his statement, 14,000 feet 

 in the first cut and 50,000 feet in the whole tree. It is estimated to be 

 over 2.000 years old and is the second largest tree in the world, the esti- 

 mated age of the largest, which is on the Rio Grande river, being 6,000 

 years. 



Change in Cumlierland Valley Lumber Company 



A. Headley Card, general manager of the Cumberland Valley Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., has resigned and will at once become identified 

 with the Straight Creek Lumber Company of Pineville. Ky. Mr. Card 

 was very popular in the lumber trade and his leaving Cincinnati will he 

 regretted by many local friends. M. J. Byrns of the Conasauga Lumber 

 Company will succeed him as general manager, and the nice business 

 already developed by Mr. Card In the two years of his management of the 

 company will be further increased by Mr. Byrns, who is a thorough 

 lumberman, having started his career at Nashville .about twelve years ago. 

 For the last six years he has been with the Conasauga Lumber Company, 

 dividing his time for the first three years at the company's big band mill 

 at Conasauga. Tenn., and the last three years he has been identified 

 with the selling end exclusively. The company was incorporated two 

 years ago for $50,000 paid in capital stock. The officers are C. B. Bene- 

 dict, president ; John W. Love of Nashville, Tenn.. vice-president, and 

 John Byrns of Cincinnati, secretary and treasurer. The company deals 

 exclusively in hardwods and has done well to date. General Manager 

 Byrns has been giveu full authority to go as far as he likes, and intends 

 to increase the business just as fast as possible. 



German-American Lumber Company Purchases Timber 



The German-American Lumber Company, through its representative 

 Julius .Schreyer. has purchased an immeusi- stand of timber in western 

 Florida, where the company already owns extensive holdings and operates 

 a large sawmill. The Betts tract of 65,000 acres of virgin timber is one 

 of the tracts and in addition 36,000 acres of high-grade stumpage has 

 been bought from G. H. Drummond. The German-American Lumber Com- 

 pany's mill is located at Millville, Fla.. which is within easy transpor- 

 tation from the newly acquired timber holdings. It is planned, however, 

 to erect another mill on the new timber. 



Big Imports of Mahogany 

 ■A shipment of between 7,0O0.0UO and 5,000,000 feet of South African 

 and British Honduras mahogany logs is about to be started by the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company of Louisville. Ky.. which concern has chartered 

 steamers which will bring the logs to I'ensacola, Fla., during the next 

 four months. The first cargo of some 4,000 logs is now being unloaded 

 at that port. The shipment will include eight additional cargoes which 

 will arrive before the first of January. Three steamers are now en route 

 from the West coast of Soutli Africa, the first of which is due some 

 time next month. In addition to the shipments from Africa the com- 

 pany will receive an average of a steamer each month from the British 

 Honduras mahogany .section. The Mengel company owns a great deal of 

 mahogany timber in that country and maintains extensive logging opera- 

 tions. Shipments will go from Pensacola direct to Louisville and con- 

 stitute the greatest importation of mahogany through Pensacola in the 

 history of that port. 



